The weather is finally turning around here in now sunny Cajamarca! Today and yesterday it has been warm and sunny, perfect days for roaming the city and going on daily excursions. Yesterday, Amy and I went to visit her friend who makes all of her pottery dishes and what not. We got a couple of things for friends and family and I'm having him make a couple of things for Amy to being to me when she comes to Minnesota in a couple weeks. After visiting the pottery guy we went into the city to experience the "Friday market". On Fridays some of the streets in downtown Cajamarca are closed off to allow for the extreme amount of people trying to sell their goods. People were selling things from fruits, nuts, bags, clothes, all kinds of meats and things like chip bag clips and shoes. It was crazy trying to walk through the streets not looking like you were getting whiplash from looking at all the vender's. One thing that did surprise me was the smell, with all of the wonderful things being sold the smell was something close to wet dog mixed with fish and three day old garbage. 
Eric joined us for lunch over looking the main plaza in Cajamarca (there are about 4 or 5 different plazas around the city that people will gather at). We ate at a hotel and had a great time catching up during his lunch break.
After making a dinner of spaghetti with turkey meatballs, we went to see Men in Black 3, or Hombres de Negro 3. We had hoped to catch a lucky break and to have subtitles in English for the movie. We were not so lucky and ended up watching the movie in Spanish. At the end I asked if Amy and Eric understood most of the movie, they did and they were very happy that their level of comprehension was so good.
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